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Other teams are not exempt from peculiar crises...
...fact, the peculiar misfortune of the Chinese to be up against one of those rare souls it is all but impossible to dislike. Beijing has felt it necessary to call him a "political corpse, bandit and traitor," a "red- handed butcher who subsisted on people's flesh." Yet everyone who meets the Dalai Lama is thoroughly disarmed by his good-natured warmth and by a charisma all the stronger for being so gentle...
CAMBRIDGE was invaded by a man from Outer Space Tuesday night. He was warm and witty and he charmed a standing-room-only crowd at the Nightstage club in Central Square. This peculiar visitor from another time and place came not to terrorize and pillage, but to deliver a strange and wonderful philosophy made up of equal parts hope, common sense and baseball lore. This Spaceman is running for the Presidency of the United States...
After Chang broke the story of the peculiar policy last week, some enraged students proposed banning Citibank representatives and advertising from the campus. A Citibank spokesman admitted that "field of study" has been one consideration for giving out cards because it indicates how well a student will handle debt. But after complaints from campuses around the U.S., the bank decided last year to start phasing out the policy. Now there may be hope for future artists, poets and historians...
...work of Nikolai Gogol, one lighthearted and delightfully absurd, the other darker, crueler and obsessive to the point of madness. Director Christopher Duff manages to display through two short pieces, The Nose and From a Madman's Diary, both sides of Gogol's talent with out losing the peculiar, manic sensibility that unites the whole of his canon...